Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well sir , they 're , we support dipping because it 's already been stated to note that we make most of the money for Shropshire from farming , and sheep is one of the big things which we sell all over the country , but unless we can guarantee our sheep are clear of er , disease people are n't going to come here and buy meat and stuff are they ? |
| 2 | Mix the herbs into the softened butter and rub all over the lamb . |
| 3 | Treasures front all over the world . |
| 4 | That 'll be lovely , I say politely over the telephone , do come round , it 'll be nice to see you . |
| 5 | It was built by Francis Smallman , whose initials and those of his wife Ellen appear all over the plasterwork ceilings . |
| 6 | From the inner-city I steer shakily over the Liffey and through the cobbled streets and mixed primary colours of old Dublin , through a wide stretch of bleak , bland suburbs and onto a motorway . |
| 7 | Insert the gaskets in the aluminium glazing bar cap ; place centrally over the rafter gasket and screw down no more than 400mm apart , using matching coloured acetal headed stainless steel screws . |
| 8 | There is a sad inevitability about the battles which wage continuously over the future of the wilder uplands of Scotland . |
| 9 | Every moment of Rainbow 's existence during my time at the Fair has been tracked , recorded , docketed and programmed for easy-edit , so I am able to wipe , play-back , freeze-frame or skim fast over the boring bits . |
| 10 | The beetles protect theirs by turning the front pair into stiff thick covers which fit neatly over the top of the abdomen . |
| 11 | Over a third of the Group 's 104,000 UK employees hold shares through the Staff Profit Sharing Scheme and have seen the value of the shares grow significantly over the last five years as a result of the company 's continued success . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly the strangest of Sulawesi 's amazing fauna , the babirusa , a species of pig with four tusks , two of which curve backwards over the head . |
| 13 | The longer upper tusks grow upwards through the skin and curve backwards over the eyes . |
| 14 | The deeply moated site of the former manor house marks the edge of the old settlement ; sheep now graze peacefully over the remains of the village and over the ridge and furrow patterns of what were once the communal arable fields . |
| 15 | As he spoke a dark pool of blood began to gather under the luxuriant mane of Harriet 's auburn hair which had escaped from the loosened snood and spread slowly over the ground . |
| 16 | Did your Gary Sprake also dive right over the ball when you were leading 1–0 in the cup final : - ) ) ) |
| 17 | Now , as a new year begins , will you help Save the Children to continue providing care and support all over the world ? |
| 18 | ‘ They dive all over the place . |
| 19 | Yes , it 's like just walk all over the students again . |
| 20 | He looked down at the scatter of handwritten pages spread all over the table , and tensed his body as though anticipating a blow . |
| 21 | By the late eleventh century the hand of Cluny was felt in houses spread all over the north of Spain and down into Italy , even to La Cava near Naples and over into Sicily , and also across the south and west of Germany in the movement which had its centre in Hirsau . |
| 22 | ‘ In the space of two years , we moved from a domestic merchant bank with 500 people , all of whom knew each other very well , to an organisation with nearly 3,000 people spread all over the world , ’ says Mr Reed . |
| 23 | Geographically , operators can be found spread all over the globe , but the so-called Third World , especially the Caribbean and Alaska are the prime areas of the activity . |
| 24 | Migration followed the establishment of a world economic system : Indians spread all over the British Empire ; Chinese went to Singapore and Indonesia . |
| 25 | He provided the link between the School and its past pupils , for he was the Membership Secretary of the Old Stopfordians ' Association , no easy task , with members spread all over the world . |
| 26 | All about Keswick he had noticed gangs of men building the giant reaches of drystone walls enclosing even the highest fell-land , the better to take advantage of grain prices in the war ; gangs of men working the woods , as charcoal-burners , swill-makers , coppice-workers , plain woodmen ; and , as here , men in the high mines — men spread all over the landscape , bondmen of industry , all living out near their workplace , turf huts and teepees scattered abroad , excluded from society throughout the week of their work and let into its comforts and pleasure only for a brief Saturday night escape . |
| 27 | The visible stars appear spread all over the night sky , but are particularly concentrated in one band , which we call the Milky Way . |
| 28 | I had thought that I might ride in a carretta to the edge of the desert , and then walk away over the sand and into the sun . |
| 29 | If you start to choke on something , put your fist into the soft spot under the middle of the ribcage and keeping ‘ punching ’ yourself , or bend forwards over the back of a chair and bounce your abdomen off it . |
| 30 | ‘ Bend forward over the table , young woman , and grasp the far edge . ’ |